Curious Quotes - Page 17

• The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

  T. S. Eliot

  Risk, Should, Transgression

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• Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.

  Michael Kay

  Listening, Curiosity, Principles

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• When I think of [my relationship with Gable], considering the way it started, it was curious. We became devoted to each other. We weren't lovers-he was in love with Carole Lombard...we eventually became more like siblings. Nobody believes that and you can understand why...but our relationship was unique. Oh he sometimes gave me the macho routine when people were watching but he changed when we were alone.

  Myrna Loy

  Sibling, Believe, Unique

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• It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Ideas, Community

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• Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Want, Mr Spock, Illogical

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". TV Series "Star Trek" ("Errand of Mercy", March 23, 1967), www.imdb.com. 1966-1969.

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• I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back...it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.

  Liza Minnelli

  Grateful, Unhappy, Looks

  "Super trouper" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2006.

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• Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

  H. G. Wells

  Wall, Philosophical, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Thinking, People, Ignorant

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• Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Leader, Trying, Good Leader

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• Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.

  Arthur Miller

  Lying, Optimistic, Men

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, People, Climate

  "Ryan Reynolds Talks Blake Lively, Having A Big Family" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• It's a wonderful thing, the D.T.'s. You can travel the world in a couple of hours. You see some mighty funny and curious things that come in assorted colors.

  W. C. Fields

  Couple, Color, World

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• Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

  John Cusack

  Art, Pain, Brilliant

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• The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

  Tom Peters

  Passion, Race, Mad

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• For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Communication, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Orlando”, p.122, OUP Oxford

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• Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Students, Percentages

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• I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Years, Haiti

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• If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of ,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.

  Jenson Button

  Play, Needs, Six Months

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• I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer.

  Dean Acheson

  Snakes, Feelings, Watches

  Harry S. Truman, Dean Acheson (2010). “Affection and Trust: The Personal Correspondence of Harry S. Truman and Dean Acheson, 1953-1971”, p.275, Knopf

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• I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

  Dane Cook

  Self Worth, Stories, Half

  Twitter post from Jun 9, 2013

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• Acting and emotionally expressing myself, seeing the world and being a mom are just all very exciting to me. I'm a real curious person.

  Maria Bello

  Mom, Real, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• Turkey has a very young, dynamic, curious population. In Europe, Facebook and Twitter are mostly about sharing daily experiences while for Turkish people, social networks are political platforms.

  Elif Safak

  Europe, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody."

  Tinsel Korey

  Lonely, Sweet, Past

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.

  Andres Serrano

  Thinking, Certainty In Life, Normal

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• In 1968 I frequently would sit in a photo booth and practice self mirror images which I then documented photographically. Curious types would always open the curtains and chase me away. Today I work with a photographer.

  Arnulf Rainer

  Mirrors, Self, Practice

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